invites a friend to sleep over. the next morning, she s dead. oh, my god! i don t feel a pulse. what in the world happened? how could this be? turned out this was no ordinary slumber party. we know from their phones that this was a planned event. they had discussed it. they took pictures. stories surfacing of a dangerous experiment. the main purpose of having the sleepover was to try it. an experiment that just might tempt other teens. we know it s entered our high school. why the clues in this mystery could save a life in your family. you have a lot of people watching dateline that need to talk to their kids. welcome to dateline. parents always worry there are so many dangers out in the world a teenager can face. but at a slumber party in your own basement? how could something deadly have found its way there? taken a bright, talented girl. and could it happen in your town, to your child? here s kate snow with one small dose. they re killing our k
a bright and beautiful teen invites a friend to sleep over. the next morning, she s dead. oh, my god! i don t feel a pulse. what in the world happened? how could this be? turned out this was no ordinary slumber party. we know from their phones that this was a planned event. they had discussed it. they took pictures. stories surfacing of a dangerous experiment. the main purpose of having the sleepover was to try it. an experiment that just might tempt other teens. we know it s entered our high school. why the clues in this mystery could save a life in your family. you have a lot of people watching dateline that need to talk to their kids. welcome to dateline. parents always worry there are so many dangers out in the world a teenager can face. but at a slumber party in your own basement? how could something deadly have found its way there? taken a bright, talented girl. and could it happen in your town, to your child? here s kate snow with one small d
dangerous experiment. the main purpose of having the sleepover was to try it. an experiment that just might tempt other teens. we know it s entered our high school. why the clues in this mystery could save a life in your family. you have a lot of people watching dateline that need to talk to their kids. welcome to dateline. parents always worry there are so many dangers out in the world a teenager can face. but at a slumber party in your own basement? how could something deadly have found its way there? taken a bright, talented girl. and could it happen in your town, to your child? here s kate snow with one small dose. they re killing our kids and we need to do something about it. reporter: it s a new threat. she was saying, erin, your best friend died, and she kept yelling that over and over. reporter: and these teens found out about it the hard way. it s made out to seem like one of those, you re not really going to see it in your life kind of
because we had a cabin and she would just be a dare devil on that. she liked going and taking risks and stuff. reporter: but her family and friends agree, tara s greatest passions were drawing and music. she had a pretty decent size basement. so she would play music down there a lot. she and i would go down there and jam. i just did it. i just did it. she was playing guitar a lot. she was getting into music. a lot of the classic 70s stuff. beatles, lynyrd skynyrd. huge, huge, huge oasis fan. reporter: yet none of that got in the way of school. her mother, mai, says tara was a bright, honor roll student, who loved to learn. she would read books. four, five books at once, and she would sit at dinner reading a book at the same time. you d have to tell her to take the book away from the table? yeah, right. but a lot of times how could you yell at a kid when they read a book? yeah. smart kid, tom?
how could this be? it just seemed like a complete nightmare. reporter: they were at an early morning basketball game with their youngest child, when they got a terrifying phone call from a fellow parent, who was at their home. she said their 17-year-old daughter, tara, was lying unresponsive in the basement. tom told her to call 911. oh, my god. her lips are blue. and i don t i don t feel a pulse. i don t feel a pulse. you don t feel a pulse? correct. okay. try to shake her and shout, are you okay? does she respond? tara, are you okay? are you all right, tara? are you okay, sweetie? nothing. are you okay?